Limbo
An anonymous job platform for better hiring practices.
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Andrew Crimer

Limbo - An anonymous job platform for better hiring practices

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Limbo is an anonymous job platform where applicants post their ideal role without names or photos & let companies introduce themselves.

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Sourav Karmakar
Nice concept and really cool anonymous job platform. Really innovative idea.
Matt Samet
Great idea. How are you going to prevent contract sourcers, outsourced cheap recruiters and similar agencies (headhunters) from polluting and eventually destroying your platform? If I list Java in my skill set but don't want to be a backend engineer, what prevents cheap offshore headhunters from doing keyword searches and spamming me, without even bothering to read my profile? Even if I only choose to reveal myself to the top requests, I might still be flooded with crap and have to pore through it all. Too much noise and too little signal is the biggest problem in recruiting right now.
Chris Dary
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@yozzozo Hey Matt - we fully agree. That's why the model is pay-on-request. Every time a company wants to reach out to you, they need to pay $30 (the first one is free). This is intentional friction to reduce low quality leads. We think this will take care of 90% of the problem, as companies are now incentivized to be focused in their requests. Beyond that, if we see a particular hiring manager or company has a consistently very low accept rate, we'd probably look into whether that form of outreach is allowed on our platform.
Braunson Yager
Fantastic idea!
Corey O'Brien
This would be amazing in a large city. Seems like, at some point, an employer would still want face to face interviews and would make decisions based on the things that anonymity is meant to fix. Does this just add another layer of distance between what an employer wants? If an employer is going to hire based on gender or looks, they would do it while interviewing anyways. Great concept though. Wish it would take off.
Katarina Wajda
@chrisdary Are you guys going to keep this product focused on tech hiring exclusively?
Joel Potischman

I really like the approach of anonymizing profiles and allowing people to field multiple profiles to improve access for underrepresented groups and

allow people to try different ways of marketing themselves or try for different types of jobs simultaneously.

Pros:

Really different and thoughtful approach to the job search

Cons:

Still brand new

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